Welcome to MacMinute's live coverage of the Seybold San Francisco 2001 keynote! We will be bringing our readers constant updates from the keynote as soon as it begins. Items will be listed in reverse-chronological order (most recent first). Sit back and enjoy the show!

• Keynote ends. [13:33 ET]


• Alias|Wavefron's Maya for Mac OS X shown by Andrew Pearce, Director of Maya Technology Group Alias|Wavefront... [13:29 ET]


• LightWave renderer optimized for Alivec and MP Macs... [13:25 ET]


• LightWave demoed under Mac OS X... [13:25 ET]


• Lamkin reinforces commitment for Mac OS X - pokes fun at Schiller for saying the Office for X is the poster child for Mac OS X. He commented by asking Jobs in the audience when the last time was he showed performance comparisons between a Pentium and a Macintosh using Microsoft Word... [13:24 ET]


• Bryan Lamkin from Adobe onstage with GoLive product manager to demo what is coming with GoLive for X. These are upcoming features and are not being officially announced today... [13:18 ET]


• Crowd impressed with Excel for X... [13:14 ET]


• Ken Bereskin demos Office for X... [13:13 ET]


• Schiller talks about Microsoft and shows Office for Mac OS X (available in November). A demo can be seen at Apple Stores now... [13:11 ET]


• Soghoian gets loud applause when showing a publishing scenario scripted in Mac OS X... [13:09 ET]


• AppleScript Studio offers extensive customization and ease-of-use... [13:08 ET]


• Soghoian shows AppleScript Studio... [13:06 ET]


• Crowd reaction to AppleScript running on Mac OS X is very favorable... [13:05 ET]


• Soghoian demos AppleScript with Illustrator for Mac OS X... [13:04 ET]


• AppleScript Studio is a professional-level application for AppleScript users... [13:03 ET]


• Sal Soghoian (AppleScript product manager) talks about AppleScript... [12:59 ET]


• AppleScript Studio will be available by the end of this year... [12:58 ET]


• Schiller discuss scriptability of Mac OS X using AppleScript... [12:57 ET]


• Zimmerer shows high level of color control under Mac OS X... [12:56 ET]


• John Zimmerer (ColorSync product manager for Apple) comes onstage to talk about ColorSync... [12:51 ET]


• Schiller shows ColorSync 4... [12:50 ET]


• Schiller shows movie trailer for Monsters, Inc. from Pixar... [12:47 ET]


• Crowd reaction to iDVD 2 is impressive... [12:43 ET]


• Mike Evangelist shows iDVD 2 (due in October) -- pretty much the same demo we saw at Macworld Expo New York last July... [12:38 ET]


• Schiller back onstage talking about Mac OS X as the Digital Hub... [12:37 ET]


• Mac OS 10.1 will recognize blank DVD-Rs and allow you to write to the DVD (drag and drop) right from the desktop... [12:35 ET]


• Bereskin shows DVD capabilities under Mac OS X -- plays Batman Movie (original)... [12:33 ET]


• Bereskin shows beauty/range of fonts under Mac OS X... [12:32 ET]


• Bereskin shows flexibility of keyboard shortcuts... [12:31 ET]


• System Dock may now be placed at the bottom of the screen, or to the left or right... [12:28 ET]


• Mac OS 10.1 offers new "Scale Effect" for minimizing windows... [12:26 ET]


• Bereskin's Mac crashes when trying to access Internet -- crowd laughs... [12:24 ET]


• Bereskin demos application launching speed enhancements... [12:22 ET]


• Ken Bereskin (Mac OS X product manager) introduced... [12:22 ET]


• Graphics Enhancements: PDF 1.3 with 128-bit encryption, Faster OpenGL, Automatic USB printing, LaserWriter 8 and over 200 printer definitions... [12:20 ET]


• Aqua Enhancements: Moveable Dock, System status items, File extensions, Log-in user lists, Simpler System Preferences, Long file names, Universal Access additions, Mail enhancements... [12:19 ET]


• Main focus of Mac OS 10.1 is performance: Application Launching, Aqua Menus, Windows resizing, File Copying, Boot and Login, Java, OpenGL... [12:17 ET]


• Schiller gives a history of Mac OS X -- Open Standards, Power of Unix married with the simplicity of the Mac, Ultimate Engine for the Digital Hub, Stunning Graphics, Deep Internet Integration, Seemless Mobility, Global Language Support, Gentle Migration, Enable Killer Apps ... [12:15 ET]


• Schiller to show Mac OS 10.1 in this keynote... [12:10 ET]


• Jobs introduces Phil Schiller... [12:09 ET]


• Jobs discusses Microsoft Office for X. Free download of Word for X Test Drive available at noon (PT) today... [12:08 ET]


• Upgrade for Mac OS X owners is free (US$19.99 shipping for CD). Current owners of Mac OS X can upgrade for free at local Apple dealers... [12:07 ET]


• Mac OS 10.1 will be in stores this Saturday [12:05 ET]


• Four software updates shipped for Mac OS X. First major upgrade to Mac OS X (10.1) announced today... [12:05 ET]


• Steve Jobs discusses Mac OS X in general... [12:04 ET]


• Phil Schiller will present keynote. Jobs giving a brief introduction... [12:02 ET]


• Steve Jobs comes on stage [12:00 ET]